A brief introduction to Gromov's notion of hyperbolic groups
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A basic point about hyperbolic groups is that they have "spaces at infinity" which are spaces of homogeneous type in the sense of Coifman and Weiss, and with a lot of self-similarity coming from the group. This short survey deals with some of the notions involved.
10 pages, latex-2e. Some additions to text and bibliography
10 pages, latex-2e. Some additions to text and bibliography